Once again, extremists are playing politics with the courts, this time trying to divide the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. The Senate Judiciary Committee conducted a hearing last week to discuss the split which some have predicted would create the most conservative circuit in the country.

This brief argues against an Oklahoma law barring same-sex adoptions and also nullifying the parental rights of same-sex couples traveling through the state. This law is unconstitutional and violates the Full Faith and Credit, Equal Protection and Due Process clauses.

This brief argues that the plain language of Ohio's anti-gay constitutional amendment does not reach the domestic violence law because the anti-gay amendment prohibits only the creation of a "legal status" (which has a specific and limited meaning under Ohio law) that intends to approximate marriage.